Through art we express our conception of what nature is not. . . .
It's a lovely bit of sentimental prose, expressing a conception of life that is pleasant to entertain — namely, that our unthought habits brim with the wisdom of generations, that the blacksmith or carpenter or farmer discharging his daily chores is the last expression of a long practice of trial and error, ingenious precisely because this practice partakes of no theory.
The Cretan bull dancer of ancient Mediterranean culture, playing with the animal by somersaulting over his back, expresses a conception of man's relation to this powerful animal and the forces of fecundity and death that it symbolizes different from that of the Spanish bullfighter who slays the beast.
Ultimately Nishitani returns to the language of Zen Buddhism to express his conception of the "radical subjectivity of non-ego [muga]" as a "subjective nothingness" (shutai-teki mu) (NKC I, 88).
Even if "harmony" is a term which suggests a symmetric relationship, it is frequently understood as expressing a conception based on introduction rules as, e.g., in Read's (2010) "general elimination harmony" (although occasionally one includes elimination based conceptions as well).
Through the images, Majak hopes to express her conception of a witch -- not a woman who believes in magical powers, per se, but a woman who believes in herself.
This conception of rationality as the clear-eyed pursuit of one's own good is also expressed in Thrasymachus' conception of the 'real ruler'.
Not all researchers or clinicians expressed a clear conception of harm, and of those that did, not all described it along these lines.
The end (finis) is to teach how to correctly express the conceptions of the mind (DOS 483 84; 483 84
